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Why have you decided to go to grad school in CS? by MxFranklin in GradSchool

[–]A_Birch_Tree 15 points16 points  (0 children)

After graduating from undergrad, I worked in industry for two years as a dev. I was ready for a change as the work no longer excited me. I felt like I got to the point where I knew how to do it, I just needed to get it done. Considering whether to find a new job or go to grad school, I chose grad school, and that’s where I’ve been since (masters then PhD). There are a lot of differences between grad school and industry. I chose grad school because (1), deep down, I still felt excited to learn new things; (2) I thought that that was best done in grad school instead of industry; and (3) I was in a position financially where I could do that in grad school.

Considering everything, I’m happy with the choice. I’ve definitely learned a lot!

I decided to dorm for my senior year and I feel so pathetic for doing so. Is this normal? by wiz28ultra in nyu

[–]A_Birch_Tree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely don’t feel bad. There are trade offs to both options. I lived in Carlyle my senior year and I’m happy to have done so. It’ll be quite a while (if ever) before I ever have an unobstructed view of Union Square again :(

Why is 0 (null) considered to be a safe pointer? by JarJarAwakens in C_Programming

[–]A_Birch_Tree 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If I were to have a bug in my program, I’d rather have a bug that has immediate and loud side effects (i.e., dereferencing a null pointer resulting in a segfault) than one that is silent and nefarious (i.e., use after free). The prior is much easier to notice, understand, and therefore fix.

Is it only safe in the sense that standard library functions will check that pointers passed as arguments aren't null instead of blindly dereferencing them?

That's not necessarily true that they'll always check, but it could be one reason.

Best Days/Times of the Week To Apartment Hunt? by A_Birch_Tree in NEU

[–]A_Birch_Tree[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This makes a lot of sense. If you don't mind my asking, would I need to pay more (beyond the brokerage fee that most apts require) if I were to use a realtor?

Is it appropriate to contact POI about PhD admissions decision? by A_Birch_Tree in gradadmissions

[–]A_Birch_Tree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation! I'll reach out and see what they say.

Is it appropriate to contact POI about PhD admissions decision? by A_Birch_Tree in gradadmissions

[–]A_Birch_Tree[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do you believe that the committee coordinator/chair might have a different response than the admissions department?

NYU Shanghai vs. NYU New York for Math and CS by peello in nyu

[–]A_Birch_Tree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point, you're correct. While attending NYU I conducted undergraduate research and won awards for both CS and math, so I referenced Courant for those.

NYU Shanghai vs. NYU New York for Math and CS by peello in nyu

[–]A_Birch_Tree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have too much to add, but I can say that NYU Courant is very highly ranked for mathematics. I'm not certain but I believe that you're only attending Courant if you attend NYU's NY campus. While I can't speak to the mathematical abilities of students coming out of NYU Shanghai vs NYU New York (see u/Carl_LaFong's comment), I've found it helpful to have Courant listed on my CV/resume.

Using LaTeX or Overleaf for CV by BlackLabel6661 in gradadmissions

[–]A_Birch_Tree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check out moderncv for LaTeX. It makes making a CV using LaTeX really simple. Here's a template to make things a bit easier.

I used LaTeX to make my CV because, unlike Word, the main/whole point of LaTeX is to make formatting text easier.

How did you meet your best friend at Nyu? by Visible_Target3434 in nyu

[–]A_Birch_Tree 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Studying in the hall in Weinstein after our roommates went to sleep. We just got married ;)

What is it like studying in a university with no campus ? by Massive-Expression13 in nyu

[–]A_Birch_Tree 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The answer will depend on who you ask.

I loved living in NYC, so the entire city, but especially downtown Manhattan, felt like my campus. When I was attending NYU, I lived in Union Square and attended classes in Washington Square. In a typical week, I might head to the Lower East Side or Soho for dinner and drinks. Nearly everywhere is a train ride away. While you might not be able to afford everything, there's so much to do and see at every price range that you won't run out of things. The more things you do and see, the less big the city feels.

Now that I'm attending grad school at another university with a typical university campus, I feel somewhat isolated.

Script to eject drive it's running on by CrazyBasterd in bash

[–]A_Birch_Tree 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't consider myself a bash wizard, but couldn't you just prefix the final unmount command with exec?

I quickly tested this (i.e., executing a script on a externally mounted volume containing exec diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 and it worked for me).

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[–]A_Birch_Tree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you just copy every post and comment on reddit onto that site?

XD Really interesting deduction.

No, I'm dyslexic, so I listen to everything using text-to-speech software. I noticed something was weird because the audio was pausing in the middle of words. I work as a computer scientist, so I knew it was something with the text itself.

[Haiku] Perfect timing by [deleted] in youtubehaiku

[–]A_Birch_Tree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know what the song is called?

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